Phase A:Bridging the Gap

Mylar's expanding user base in the eclipse community is quickly making it a standard choice for eclipse integrated bug tracking. It is not the only choice however, eclipse-bugzilla (a former project of mine) provides similar functionality for bug tracking. There has been ongoing discussions on merging the two projects, but no action has been taken yet. Thus, the first phase of this project will focus on bringing functionality from eclipse-bugzilla to Mylar. This list includes:

Phase A Tasks

- Support for bugzilla collections as query options

Collections are a new feature of bugzilla which allows products to be grouped into collections. Queries can also be made against a collection instead of selecting the individual products.

- Support for collection to product associations

When a collection is selected, the product list should update to reflect only the products in that colletion.

- [REMOVED] Support for the product to {component/version/milestone} associations

When a product is selected, the component/version/milestone lists should update to reflect only those which are associated with that product. This feature was already completed by the Mylar team

Optional Ideas:

- A more user friendly query UI

Hide less commonly used options

Automatically synchronize query options with the repository

- Automatic version detection of repositories

Detect the version of the repository rather than have the user input it.

- Support for applying attached patches directly to the workspace

- Parsing name -> email address associations

- Generating bug reports from the PDE Error log

Use errors from the PDE error log to generate a bugzilla report

Phase B:Full Feature Editing

Mylar's bug editor provides a structured approach to composing comments for bug reports. In its current form it lacks full support for bugzilla features. This phase of the project will focus on adding editor support for missing bugzilla features with high quality integration into the platform. These features include:

- Voting (and viewing current tallies)

Platform integration features include:

- Drag-and-drop for attachments

- Spellchecking

Optional ideas:

- Quoting comments

Phase C:Researching and Prototyping Future Editing Features

Task repositories are beginning to support a richer editing via a wiki style syntax (eg. JIRA). In addition, wikis in general are becoming a more common development tool and as such, are of interest to Mylar. The first step for integrating this type of technology is to extend Mylar's editing framework to support wiki style editing. Then prototype views, Eclipse forms, or embedded WYSIWYG editors will be explored as a means of providing this functionality to the user. The purpose of this phase is to help define the future of rich editing in Mylar through experimental interfaces.